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WILLIAM A. MILLER, OF WAYNESVILLE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MORRIS W. ROGERS, OF SAME PLACE. I

DETAC HAB LE TOE-CALK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.- 534,656, dated February 26, 1895.

Application filed December 28,1898- Serial No. 495,018- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM A. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waynesville, in the county of Warren and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Detachable Toe- Oalks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to toe calks, but more particularly to that class which may be removably secured to a horse-shoe.

Heretofore in devices of this character it has been proposed to provide a plate having a clamp for engaging a portion of a horseshoe; the said clamp being slidingly held in a groove or slot in the plate and forced forward by a set screw or bolt, the end of which abuts against the clamp or directly engages the same. In such cases the parts require careful arrangement or finish so that the parts may work properly, and require more machine work than should be necessary for a cheap and durable article.

The primary object of my invention is to overcome these obj ectionable features by providing a simple, efficient and durable device that may be readily and securely attached to a horse-shoe when the same is on the foot of a horse, and which may be removed, therefrom when so desired.

With this and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and then defined in the claim at the end of the description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device as applied to a shoe; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

In the drawings I have illustrated in dotted lines a horse-shoe A of any preferred form, the lower front surface of which is smooth and against which the upper surface of the plate Bis adapted to abut. This plate B has its outer surface conforming approximately to the contour of the shoe A and has a calk 12 depending therefrom, the said calk being rigidly secured to or formedintegrally with the plate. Extending upwardly from the plate are the jaws I) located near the opposite ends of said plate and arranged tangentially to the edge of the shoe A, the upper portions 11 of which are preferably wedge -shaped and turned slightly inward to engage the upper edge of the shoe for the purpose of rigidly binding the plate to said shoe. The plate is further provided with a screw-threaded stem or bolt 5 which is adapted to pass through an aperture in the clamp O. This clamp extends upwardly and is provided with a wedgeshaped lip 0 arranged in the same plane as the upper portions 19 of the jaws and is retained on the stem b by a nut c engaging the end of said bolt.

The manner of attaching the calk to the shoe will be understood from the foregoing description. The hoof is slightly cut away for the jaws b and the plate B placed in position to grasp the outer edge of the shoe, the

nut 0' being removed sufficiently to permit,

this, at which time the clamp C may be placed in position to have thelip cengage the upper edge of the inner portion of the shoe. By turning on the nut c the clamp and jaws will be brought toward each other so that the wedge-shaped upper portions of the jaws and the wedge-shaped lip of the clamp will not only tend to bind the inner and outer edges of theshoe between the clamp and the jaws, but will bind the lower surface of said shoe and the upper surface of the plate B in rigid contact.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

A removable toe-calk comprising a plate formed with a depending integral elongated calk extending partially around the forward portion of said plate, an inwardly-extending screw-threaded stem, and with vertically arranged jaws; said jaws being provided with inwardly turned wedge-shaped ends adapted to engage the outer edge of an attached horseshoe, together with a clamp provided with an aperture through which the aforesaid stem passes and with a wedge-shaped lip for engaging the inner upper edge of an attached shoe, and a nut screwed on said stem for advancing the clamp along the same; whereby the said plate may be bound in rigid contact with the shoe, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM A. MILLER.

Witnesses:

A. 0. WHITE, MORRIS ROGERS. 

